Harry Reid Waves the White Flag (It is what he does best)

[Senate majority leader Harry] Reid said Wednesday morning that the Senate's shrunken Democratic majority will have to find a way to collaborate with GOP lawmakers, both in the Senate and in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Let's be clear on this. "Collaborating with the GOP" is just another way of saying "surrendering to the GOP". Republicans have been very consistent that their idea of bipartisanship is not negotiating, it is no giving something to get something, no, not in the slightest. The Republican idea of "collaborating" is simply "you agree to do it my way."

Harry Reid must be one of the dimmer politicians in office if he cannot understand that. I have to wonder if he is suffering some sort of dain bramage from having been punched in the head too many times. The concept that the Senate is a collegial place where senators from both parties will work together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperate to pass mutually agreeable legislation is now as much a quaint relic of the past as are high-button shoes and steam locomotives, but good old Harry can't see that.

(It's a good thing that Harry Reid wasn't around to negotiate who occupied what territory at end of the Second World War; he'd have given the Soviets all of the territory to the east of the Seine River.)